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To: sunrise_sunset

Reagan put tariffs on Japan and they moved production to the US South. That’s why there are Toyota plants in Alabama, etc.

Actually I believe they were import quotas but the effect was the same.

102 posted on 08/26/2015 8:29:27 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)

To: central_va

Free trade is an ideal, but few countries practice it other than the US , and we can longer afford to have the world free load off us.

103 posted on 08/26/2015 8:34:20 PM PDT by sunrise_sunset

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